drunkard quotes

The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. Song of Solomon

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 24:20.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  'The Rolling English Road'.

Now I fold you down, my drunkard, my navigator, my first lost keeper, to love or look at later.

- Anne ne  e Harvey Sexton
  On photographs of her dead father. All My Pretty Ones,'All My Pretty Ones'.

What dreamest thou, drunkard, drowsy pate? Thy lust and liking is from thee gone. Thou blinkard blowboll, thou wakest too late.

-John Skelton
  'Lullay, Lullay, Like a Child'.